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Jan Schakowsky Quotes:

Jan Schakowsky quotes

Ocupation: U.S. Representative

Life: b. May 26, 1944

Birthday: May 26

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There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

Topics: Earthquakes, Sick, World, Drought

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As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.

Topics: Grateful, Community, Important, Community Health

Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.

Topics: Iraq, Troops, Withdrawal, Timetables

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

Topics: Community, Limited Resources, Care, Medical Care, Emergency Room

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

Topics: Sound, Fuel, Way

Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.

Topics: Democracy, Important, Minorities

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

Topics: Years, Drug, Colombia, Cultivation

When we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

Topics: Sick, Helping, Homeless

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Topics: Leadership, Running, Ideas

As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life for themselves, their families, and future generations.

Topics: Order, Generations, Firsts

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

Topics: Atrocities, Jew, Idle, Darfur, Sudan

20,000 jobs is really not that many jobs.

source: - "Grapevine: Back to the drawing board for 'Ike' memorial". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. January 25, 2012.

Topics: Jobs

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

Topics: Quality, Care, Preventive Care, Primaries

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

Topics: War, Years, Troops, American Troops, Insurgency

I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.

Topics: Organization, June, Proud, Darfur, Interfaith

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Topics: Illinois, Years, Community, Primary Care, Public Housing

Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

Topics: Opportunity, America, Community

I believe.....this is my final word......I believe that I'm supporting the Constitution of the United States which does not give the right for any individual to own a handgun....

Topics: Believe, Gun, Giving, Final Words

It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found innocent, but in fact in all the cases it was really a fluke ... We find persistent wrongdoing on the part of law enforcement. It's really sheer luck that those convicted of these [capital] crimes were exonerated in the end.

Topics: Law, Illinois, Luck, Flukes

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

source: - "Hardball" Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. July 26, 2006.

Topics: Strong, War, Doors

Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on? We are the intelligence committee and we didn't know that.

source: - "NSA spying: 20 great quotes" by Jose Delreal and Nick Gass, Slide 19, www.politico.com. October 28, 2013.

Topics: Nsa, States, Committees, Head Of State

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